Farmington man sentenced to life in prison in mutilation murder case

7:31 PM,
Apr. 18, 2014

William Dhondt, seen here Oakland County Circuit Court on March 24, was found guilty of first-degree murder and mutilation of a body after he strangled his girlfriend, Kaitlin Hehir. He was sentenced to life in prison on Friday.

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A Farmington man apologized this morning in court for strangling his girlfriend, then cutting her up in several pieces and storing her body parts in different rooms of her house.

"I'd like to say I'm sorry to the friends and family of Kaitlin," William Dhondt, 29, said as he stood shackled, in orange jail garb, awaiting sentencing in Oakland County Circuit Court to mandatory life imprisonment. "All I can say is that I'm sorry."

Dhondt was convicted of first-degree murder in the strangulation death of Kaitlin Hehir, 29, by a jury in March. Prosecutors told jurors the two fought, then Dhondt put ...